Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:38:34 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@FreeBSD.org> To: developers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD git mirrors demoted to beta status, need your help Message-ID: <20121230113834.GG69724@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20121215132246.GH69724@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <20121215132246.GH69724@acme.spoerlein.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Just a reminder that this re-roll will happen in almost two weeks. Thanks to a couple of volunteers, I now have independent confirmation that the process is deterministic and repeatable and the switch can progress as planned. Regards, Uli On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 14:22:46 +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Bad news everyone, > > tl;dr The git mirror of the source repository needs to be re-rolled to > make the conversion deterministically repeatable, this will change > pretty much all git commit hashes. > > The re-roll will be done January 15, 2013. > > Not affected are the ports and doc repositories, nor is the svn_head > (for use with git-svn) affected. > > > Background > > The converter (svn2git) was handing commits and objects to git's > fast-import in arbitrary order, this makes merge commits have an > arbitrary order of their parent commits and thus these merge commits > have changing commit hashes for each converter run. > > This has been fixed, but requires us to move all the branches over to > this deterministic scheme, which will change all their commit hashes. > None of the contents of these commits change, so rebasing/remerging your > work into these branches is possible without running into any merge > conflicts. > > > We need your help > > A goal of these conversions is to have them repeatable by you (yes, > you!), so the correctness of the conversion can be verified. There are > also no backups of the conversion runs, as they should be repeatable > anyway. > > We need 2-3 volunteers to run these conversions themselves and verify > that the produced commit hashes match the published ones. The necessary > steps to do this are documented on the Wiki under > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow#History > > Please send me your output of git show-ref in a private mail, thanks. > > Cheers, > Uli > > PS: This re-roll has nothing to do with the recent security incident. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ4Ce6AAoJEKOmmGRKr4LO78cH/RgCV96g7UAsI++NN6yKEHIA iinKYlwTiMOY981NJ79mc12YU5mffbdE8anjDK5K+MbOAqeoUl+AoG8KbafDqUEk yLL+nU3D2/iH/+FrenrGteJCOP+89NGfjuxTMi0yecoAnhQFOUt9t2PZOfvsTGFB VEG+ZynGD4b00odW7jwv8YBNbhWxI661ZIzU8GR9aUzVg4Iyk5ac7tWwXvgRQNTI TbtwHp+bh5MbTKXOsIAApcXy2liI1u1l94dxOkaSzEazeM7EBM/6d6NvLXk9PEMY uxzhc6E7z58+EY4VvzkBDTwr1jct1VISXjWIJqvohEHwN+Pf7b2SBSNAAY9F/cY= =yB0O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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